- Publisher -The publishing body also helps evaluate any kind of document you may be reading. e.g., Philips Website
- This generally means
that the author's manuscript has undergone screening in order to verify that it meets the standards or aims of the organization that
serves as publisher.
Ask the following questions about the publisher:
- Is the name of any organization given on the document you are reading?
- Are there headers, footers, or a distinctive
watermark that show the document to be part of an official academic or scholarly Web site?
- Can you contact the site Webmaster from this document?
- Is this organization recognized in our field of Ultrasound?
If you can't judge the official nature of the page through the publisher, look at the URL and see if it is a personal page or try: BetterWhoIs. This is a Web site that will look up the name and address and phone number of the author or publisher.
